We really wanted to know all the unknowable things about each other and how we were the same and how we were different, if we even were, maybe nobody is.

I steeled myself against laughter; I would rather die than laugh. I didn’t laugh, I did not laugh. But I died, I did die.

I can guarantee you nothing I do is a conscious attempt to inject something in.

I eat an egg every morning, and when I'm done, I almost always have the thought: There. Now even if I'm captured and starved, I'll be able to live off the protein of that egg for a while.

It was a tiny sound but it woke me up because it was a human sound.

Making a movie: It's so hard. It's the hardest of all the things I do.

My job is to have new ideas and take risks every day, so I'm always looking forward to the next thing being done or making the next thing that I haven't yet gotten to. That's sort of the constant in my life.